Summary
William Zeng is a machine learning engineer and cofounder focused on open-source generative AI and safety, currently leading engineering at Oumi AI in New York. He brings 11 years of experience building production ML and NLP systems, including founding tech lead work on Google Cloud’s LLM Responsible AI for Vertex PaLM/Gemini APIs. At Google he led projects across Cloud Natural Language, Document AI, and recommendation systems, blending product-facing design with scalable backend implementation. A Stanford CS graduate, he has a research background in high-performance encoding and genomics that informs his pragmatic optimization skills. William is passionate about truly open-source AI tooling—his current work at Oumi is public on GitHub—and combines startup grit with enterprise-grade reliability. Notably, he transitioned from leading responsible-AI efforts at Google to founding an open project aimed at making safe GenAI broadly accessible.
11 years of coding experience